How much does the self destruct tech cost?

Is it possible to jury-rig our own tech? Surely we have schematics from previous contracts.

Day 10:

393.1 tons
7,975 fuel

+260 tons/day
-379 fuel/day

Mine 1: 465/3000 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 20) (65/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

Mine 2: 320/2000 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (65/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

Mine 3: 160/1500 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (65/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors

Mine 4: 65/1500 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (65/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers

Gas Pocket 1: 470/4000 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (190/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors

Gas Pocket 2: 105/2500 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (75/day)
4 Heavy Harvesters
4 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors

Roads to Mine 4 and Gas Pocket 2 have been completed.
Six heavy constructors are now idle.
Protective wall around the Frontier Faciliy has been complete.
Three heavy constructors are now idle.

No new deposits or gas pockets have been discovered.

Your exploration samplers have officially left Centauri Synthetics territory and are heading towards their respective destinations.

Since you have eased off the advance, the natives have calmed down. But still, from the forest's edge they scream at you to "cease tearing the earth asunder for the rock that shines for your greed shall consume you when the old father awakens". Peculiar.

What do you do?

Call their older father a faggot and blow them the fuck away.

>>5743045

With such a relatively complex game such as we have now, sometimes I wish there was a suptg variant that allows the temporary posting/updating of statistics so that we don't have to keep asking for the current situation. I would have liked even more complexity like robot locomotion choices, but since that would go off the charts in untrackability...

Looking forward to the sitrep. Will start playing from this point forward.

>"cease tearing the earth asunder for the rock that shines for your greed shall consume you when the old father awakens"

FUCKING TOLD YOU SO.

Mine more in the mean time. Up production as high as is possible, so the quota is met, and there is plenty to spend on shiny upgrades to frag natives and the competition.

>>5743062
A thousand tons of heavy metals.
>>5743076
This isn't your facility. This is an official TradeStar facility and it only has basic TradeStar schematics on it.
But, I see your point - these limitations can be irritating.
Jury rigging is allowed - but only at the frontier facility, the construction process is much longer since you're personally involved and it might not always be successful.

>>5743098
Stop expanding metal mining operations. All new harvesters and haulers should be assigned to gas extraction sites until we have stopped having net losses per day.

If our drones can talk, inquire of the natives as to whom the old father is, and why he'd care.

>>5743151
We've still got thousands of units of gas. That will last for a while until we've met the quota on metal and have some breathing room.

>>5743173
It won't last that long. Our gas consumption is increasing at something like fifty units per day. If current trends continue our reserves will be depleted in ten days or less.

>>5743151
The heavy sampler comes with speakers - usually to project noises to scare wildlife away. In this case, though, you use it for communication.
The natives seem surprised but they scream back at you.
"The old father is the first of our kind, from the days when the first tree grew from the first soil - and when he awakens, you shall be the first to suffer for defiling the earth he once trod upon".
How boringly cryptic.

Let's not over expand. We should focus on what reserves we have close, and strip mine the joint.

>>5743207
Inform them that we're very sorry that they see our harvesting operations as defilement, and that they are certainly not intended that way. If they could suggest some less offensive way for us to get at the metal, we're all ears, but until then we have no choice but to continue our standard harvesting operations and risk making their old father wrathful.

We should kill those fucking ape men and take their shit. We've got a space ship. We can get the fuck out of here if shit hits the fan. Let the other corporations deal with this old father, then come in and take him out when he's weak.

>>5743265
We don't actually have any evidence that the dude exists. He could be a god of some kind.

As for killing them, that would require producing a lot of combat drones, and for all we know there are tens of thousands of them lurking in the forests, fully capable of fucking our drones up. We will therefore save the killing for later.

If conflict erupts, it would be preferable to capture the natives instead of slaughtering them. We could use the prisoners as leverage when dealing with the weapons manufacturers.

>>5743265
No, you don't have a spaceship.
>>5743259
They stand there in stunned silence before they resume screaming and preaching.

>>5743296
We will therefore use our FUCKING LASERS to shoot them the fuck down, and burn down their forests so they can't hide.

Tell the natives we would stop defiling their planet if we could become friends.

If we became friends, we could help them and they could help us.

>>5743317
Final offer: they could give us somewhere they don't live that isn't occupied by any other corporation to defile. If not, that's that, then. If they need anything, they know how to find us; until then, good day.

Add one light combat drone to the standard equipment for each extraction site, please.

>>5743379
You're too confrontational.

Remember, we can say one thing and do another.

>>5743317

So wait, we have a spaceport but no emergency escape vehicles?

TradeStar must be made of REAL assholes.

>>5743389
Yeah, but I rather like maintaining honesty in my dealings. If I'm planning to go piss on someone's sacred sites and shoot them if they try to stop me, I might as well say so. Cheerfully.

It's one thing to be a bastard, and another to be a lying bastard.

>>5743379
Updating each facility with 3 light combat drones and 2 light construction drones so they're all level.

Also, after the "good day" bit, they all go apeshit and howl curses and litanies at you. They don't seem to like you too much.

>>5743443
That's the idea.

If you fail to meet expectations, you're left there to rot.

>>5743443

How much would it cost to requisition a rocket/small ship to place on standby at the starport in case of emergencies?

Fuck it. If they're already mad at us, start blasting the bigger ones with the lasers.

>>5743476
For a basic small shuttle, that'll be 500 tons.

Also, they gave you the spaceport so they could land for the darn cargo.

>Fuck it. If they're already mad at us, start blasting the bigger ones with the lasers.
We don't actually have any combat drones where they are. They're talking to unarmed exploration drones. Otherwise, a show of force would probably have already been in order.

>For a basic small shuttle, that'll be 500 tons.
Guys, we don't need this. If we maintain current extraction rates without increasing things at all, we'll meet the minimum for the month, and that means that we can spend a fair bit of metal on making fun toys like massive laser turrets all around our base if we want to.

>>5743502
Note: you only have six light combat drones with the samplers and six heavy combat drones patrollin' base.

In any case, y'all ready for Day 11 and contact with AlphaRange and Lemmington Pharmaceuticals?

>y'all ready for Day 11
Yes.

Go to the next day.

>>5743562

Sure, let's go for it.

653.1 tons
7,623 fuel

+260 tons/day
-338 fuel/day

Mine 1: 530/3000 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 20) (65/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

Mine 2: 385/2000 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (65/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

Mine 3: 225/1500 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (65/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

Mine 4: 130/1500 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (65/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

Gas Pocket 1: 660/4000 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (190/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

Gas Pocket 2: 295/2500 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (190/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

Nine heavy constructors are still idle.

No additional deposits or gas pockets were discovered.

The natives are beginning some sort of tribal dance, hammering the trees and the earth in a rhythm while chanting, always keeping to a beat, roaring a funny little litany until their lungs become sore.

Your exploration samplers arrive at the respective borders of AlphaRange and Lemmington's.

Your next action?

>>5743636

Watch their actions silently first, then attempt to communicate either after being caught or if nothing interesting happens for a while.

ACTIVATE THE FUSSION BOMBS AND BLOW THEM THE FUCK AWAY

>>5743682
They don't care about being watched. They're practically taking turns in chanting, while others rest their lungs.

"The sons of the father will smash and hammer and grind your bones, the sons of the father will rip and tear and slash your flesh, the sons of the father will..."

It just keeps on repeating, just like that, over and over and over.

Contact AlphaRange and Lemmington's using our drones. Inform them that we are working for TradeStar and interested in familiarizing ourselves with their objectives on this planet so that we can avoid interference with one another while mutually accomplishing our goals.


Resume surveying, if the natives are busy dancin' and singin'. Maybe they won't notice. Or maybe do a more thorough survey of already-scanned areas to ensure that we didn't miss anything.

Expand to another gas pocket with our next set of harvesters.

Also inform the other companies that the natives are attempting to summon some kind of badass motherfucker

>>5743726

Sounds like more of a warcry. Maybe we should step up production of combat drones.

>>5743711
... Is gathering more resources really a good idea at this stage, when they're ranting about some "son of the father"?

I suggest that OP posts an updated map, so new players know where we stand. Modify the file a bit with some roads or expanded borders to whatnot so that 4chan will let you keep both pics in the threads. Deleting sucks, bro


Pic related, it's our endgame

perhaps, we should great the other industrious corps with less diplomacy and more hot lead. What do we know about their facilities and operation sites?

>>5743766
Gathering resources is ALWAYS a good idea.

Besides, we have lasers and they don't.

>>5743838
Custer had the most advanced weapons in the world, and we know how that turned out.

I'm out for bed, guys. Night

>>5743706

Actually I meant the corporations.

>>5743711
AlphaRange:
"We don't care what you do - we want the locals. You find any, send them to us. We don't care you do it as long as they're alive and in decent condition. If you don't have any locals to offer, stay out of our way."
Lemmington Pharmaceuticals:
"You can't just mindlessly dig up the earth like that! Lord knows what specimens you are destroying in the process. I beg of you to at least slow your mining process just a bit - you might accidentally obliterate a nobel prize winner!"

>>5743915
Send some heavy combat drones and fuck Lemmington's ass up. Don't kill them all. Subjucate them under us. If they resist, then to hell with them. Kill them all.

>>5743770
Here's the map, then.

>>5743915
>AlphaRange: "We don't care what you do - we want the locals. You find any, send them to us. We don't care you do it as long as they're alive and in decent condition. If you don't have any locals to offer, stay out of our way."
"Give us blueprints for stun weapons, and we'll start catching them for sale to you."

>Lemmington Pharmaceuticals: "You can't just mindlessly dig up the earth like that! Lord knows what specimens you are destroying in the process. I beg of you to at least slow your mining process just a bit - you might accidentally obliterate a nobel prize winner!"
"You can scan our areas for potentially valuable specimens if we can dig up any areas of yours that don't contain anything you need. As for slowing down... the fires of industry never stop burning, friends."

>>5743933
I think some hippie stomping is in order, the other guys seem cool though lets catch a lone local and send it to them as a gift

>>5743979
Yeah, get the stun weapons from Alpha. Charge for the slaves we give them though. Weapons for natives.

>>5743915

Try and arrange a deal with AlphaRange for weapons schematics every time a certain number of natives are brought in, In the meantime, begin subduing and capturing any isolated natives we come across.

Claim to heed Lemmington's request to slow down mining, but don't bother doing so. What they don't know won't hurt them. Ask them what they know about the natives.

Hmm... What if we lure a party of natives into our facility on the grounds of diplomatic negotiations?

OUR OFFICIAL COURSE OF ACTION:

Get stun weapons from Alpha. Offer captured Natives for real weapons.

Destroy Lemmington.

>fuck Lemmington's ass up
>some hippie stomping is in order
They're not hippies any more than we are. They just get paid to study plants. There's no reason to mess with them; odds are that we'll be able to come to some agreeable arrangement.

>>5744015
Majority rules.

We're stomping some hippies.

>>5744015
But by not destroying them, we will appear weak and Alpha will see that as a time to strike and take the natives they think we have. Why would they think that? Because Lemmington is filling their minds is false thoughts... So what shall we do to these invertibrate assholes.

>>5744013
This

We have absolutely zero intel on Lemmington's defense capabilities. Even if we don't get curbstomped by a massive counterattack, an unnecessary show of force at this point isn't exactly going to endear the other factions to us.

>>5743979
AlphaRange:
"I can offer you stunrod schematics for 250 tons of ore and 1000 units of fuel. After that, the only tech' I am giving yous is exchange for slaves."

Lemmington Pharmaceuticals:
"No, no, no! Don't you understand, it could occur anywhere! Anywhere that is it's natural environment, that is - the less of a natural environment there is, the less chance of such a specimen appearing is! Put down your drills and put on your thinking caps! You can't let this opportunity go to waste!"

>>5744062
Sure is Anon in here

>>5744041 >>5744042 >>5744056 >>5744013
Dammit, you guys! Lemmington's is going to pop us with a bioweapon or something and we'll all die of thirst because all the water in our bodies was shit out THROUGH OUR EYEBALLS.

>>5744013
agreed, though if lemmington soon provides a problem for our industrious glory... their will be droid blood on these hands.

>>5744077
Argh. Thanks for the reminder.

Anyway, what are you going to be producing today?

>>5744090
We're going to produce heavy combat drones and destroy Lemmington's presence on this planet, and take whatever they have that we want and then give the land to the Native's as a present,

"We've driven these outsiders from your home." That kind of thing.

>>5744090
We're going to be producing hauler and harvester drones, as per usual. Exploit a new gas pocket to try and halt the plummet of our fuel supplies.

>>5744107
Full production on heavy combat drones then?

Also: a change in AlphaRange's deal.

In exchange for 250 tons and 1000 units, you will recieve stunrod technology and the slaver drone variant, which you can use to contain live creatures within - one inside a light slaver, two inside a medium slaver, five inside a large slaver.

Is it possible to expand northeast across the water? And while we're at it, look into offshore oil deposits.

>>5744114
Okay then, gas it is.

Moving on to Day 12, unless anyone objects?

>>5744107
Setting aside entirely the level of disgust that one may or may not have for Lemmington's, we don't even share a goddamn border with them. It is a complete waste of time to spend our precious building capacity on this kind of attack, particularly when they're not exploiting the resources in their territory. We can think of their territory as being held in trust for our later exploitation.

>>5744126

This seems reasonable enough. If we do accept the deal, shore up on defenses, Lemmington isn't going to take exploitation of native fauna lightly.

>>5744132
TradeStar offers the Amphibious schematic for 1000 Heavy Metals.

Also, Centauri Synthetic's offer of repulsor technology in exchange for 5000 units of fuel and your laser technology still stands.

>>5744136
Fucking attack Lemmington.

We had majority in favor of that.

Do it.

>>5744126
>In exchange for 250 tons and 1000 units, you will recieve stunrod technology and the slaver drone variant,
Take the deal. They're responsible for retrieving their goods, though.

>>5744161
Fuck Centauri. They can't have our only weapon tech. With it and their flight capabilities they could crush us.

>>5744168

Attacking Lemmington would be a very costly time-intensive action which may not even succeed because we don't know what they're capable of. Considering the sheer time it'd take for heavy combat drones just to reach their area of influence we're basically saying goodbye to our initial goal of obtaining heavy metals.

>>5744207
Too bad. More people want to do it than not.

>>5744168
It took three days just to get to Lemmington's territory with those sampler drones. Besides, what would you attack him with? A handful of heavy combat drones?

>>5744240
That's why we were supposed to produce more, except you didn't do that.

>>5744236
Not every quest has to be run solely on the sheer stupidity of Anonymous' collective will.

>>5744254
Since majority is voting in favour then - the production of heavy combat drones begins.

Also, god damn it, what are you going to get your nine idle construction drones to do?

>>5744207
sadly friends they are right, we need to learn more of these hippie science liberal bio-weapon engineers first before destroying them. Maybe we can take them from the inside. If we can be grated access to their area of influence to mine in already researched areas we can slowly convert drones into combat drones and launch an assault from inside hopefully with as little collateral damage so we can salvage their work and resources. But this will take time, deception, and diplomacy. Who thinks we should give these "people" a chance and keep a back up plan just in case?

>>5744269

Build another wall. A BIGGER WALL. To improve the defenses.

Deactivate the ones that aren't needed, and the rest once the wall is complete.

>Also, god damn it, what are you going to get your nine idle construction drones to do?
Well, as long as they're idle, at least they're not consuming fuel...

But I'll go with "Build another drone production facility", instead. And "Build more roads to deposits we anticipate exploiting."

>>5744277
And fyi fuck Centuri that sounds like bloody awful way to kill ourselves.

>>5744269

Hoo boy.

If we're going to take the combat route, we may as well do it right. Send 5 construction drones north along the east coast, avoiding Centauri and Lemmington territory. Have them build a construction facility closer to Lemmington's area of influence.

>>5744298
Yeah.

>>5744298
third agreed

551.1 tons
6,103 fuel

+260 tons/day
-458 fuel/day

Mine 1: 595/3000 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 20) (65/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

Mine 2: 450/2000 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (65/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

Mine 3: 290/1500 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (65/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

Mine 4: 195/1500 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (65/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

Gas Pocket 1: 850/4000 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (190/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

Gas Pocket 2: 485/2500 (MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 10) (190/day)
10 Heavy Harvesters
10 Heavy Haulers
2 Light Constructors
3 Light Fighters

No additional deposits or gas pockets discovered.

One more turn until Forward Construction is complete.
Two more turns until superwall is complete.

You now have thirty combat drones.

Slaver drone and stunrod technology has been purchased. Combat drone piston-blades can be replaced with stunrods.

The chanting of the natives continues - but now it is much more simple and they're all chanting in unison, at once. "The sons of the father, the sons of the father, the son of the father" and so on and so forth.

What do you do?

>>5744382
That's Day 12 and correction - you know have thirty heavy combat drones.

>>5744382
The lack of successful surveys unnerves me. Our drones are surveying, right?

Equip all our light combat drones with stunrods.

Can stunned natives be loaded onto hauler drones, or is it required that we produce the specialized slaver drones for their movement?

>>5744448
You're surveying - just surveying the same area you've been surveying al long. You backed away from ape territory, that you were expanding into.

And actually, you make a good point.

Rather than a slaver variant, hauler drones can be altered to carry slaves.

Would it be possible to turn off our combat drones to reduce fuel consumption without leaving ourselves completely vulnerable to surprise attack? That is, how long would it take to activate an idled combat drone?

>>5744492
Absolutely possible.

>>5744382

Send 15 of the heavy combat drones to stand guard over the forward construction, keep the others here in case the natives declare war. I'm suspicious about those little buggers.

If we have a gas pocket available, construct Harvester and Hauler drones to start working on it. We seriously need to halt the fuel deficit. Once the forward post is complete, have it begin churning out Heavy Combat drones.

>>5744507
In that case, please make it a standing order for all combat drones to be idle unless enemies are actively identified nearby or they're being relocated somewhere.

>>5744528

Second this, but build a few light combat drones to patrol the perimeter.

Once our heavy combat drones get in range, commence attack on Lemmington.

OP still here?

>>5744796

No, wait until at least 30 heavy combat drones are gathered at the forward base before commencing attack. We want to go for a crushing first strike.

Been over a half hour since OP posted.

He's gone.

shouldn't we build more military might first?

This was a dissapointment

Summary: It's been 10 days. The world has not been covered by mushroom shaped clouds.

Conclusion: The contractors are obviously not taking their jobs seriously.

Result: Your all fired.

Sorry, folks. I passed out after a lack of sleep and perhaps you could've done with a bit more warning than what you got.

>>5746494
Don't think any of us are in the mood for continuing. Get your sleep, come back another day and start again. Meanwhile, let's get this archived.

>>5746708
This'll be continued in probably 24 hours time, then. I'll be back.